Brighthouse Financial Stock Options
| BHF Stock | USD 51.74 1.29 2.56% |
Brighthouse Financial's latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.54 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.13 over 6 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2024-12-20. The total put volume is at 44.0, with calls trading at the volume of 44.0. This yields a 3.67 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against 2024-12-20 Option Contracts
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The chart above shows Brighthouse Financial's distribution of open interest by maturity on contracts that have not yet been settled. The area between the two highest points is the projection of the price at expiration. Brighthouse Financial's open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Brighthouse Financial's option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
Brighthouse Financial's option chain provides insight into all available option contracts written on Brighthouse Financial's stock. Investors can see outstanding put and call contracts with pricing information and greeks for a given expiration period. In addition, each of Brighthouse Financial's stock options below provides a detailed picture of the payoff. Comparing vital and dynamic information of various option contracts across diverse expiration periods will help you make an educated decision on your market timing strategies around investing in a given Brighthouse option contract.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Brighthouse Financial
Analyzing Brighthouse Financial's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Brighthouse Financial regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Brighthouse Financial's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Brighthouse Financial's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Brighthouse Financial's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
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Brighthouse Financial In The Money Call Balance
When Brighthouse Financial's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Brighthouse Financial stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Brighthouse Financial's options that are 'In the Money' or 'Out of the Money', the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
While 'out-of-the-money' option contracts written on Brighthouse Financial are typically viewed as the more aggressive, there are potential upsides to purchasing these types of options contracts. For one, the cost to buy an 'Out of the Money' option is lower than the cost to buy an 'In the Money' option. This cost-benefit is due to the fact that at the time of the purchase, 'Out of the Money' contracts have no intrinsic value. So, while the potential for a 100% loss is more significant, the cost and risk to enter the trade are lower.
Brighthouse Current Options Market Mood
Brighthouse Financial's open interest and total value indicators provide investors with the necessary information to digest the overall options buildup for its expiring contracts. In addition, it helps Brighthouse Stock's traders understand whether a recent fall or rise in the market is unreasonable and if the time has come to take contrarian positions. These ratios are calculated based on options trading volumes and current open interest.
Put-to-Call Open Interest
Put-to-Call Volume
Unfortunately, most Brighthouse Financial's options investors are not very successful. Brighthouse Financial's option open interest and volume spread between outstanding puts and calls are regarded by many investors as reliable indicators of the overall future market direction.
Rule 16 of the current Brighthouse contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Brighthouse Financial will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0338% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With Brighthouse Financial trading at USD 51.74, that is roughly USD 0.0175. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Brighthouse Financial's daily price movement you should consider buying Brighthouse Financial options at the current volatility level of 0.54%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Brighthouse Financial options can give investors a meaningful hedge against losses and, therefore, could be used conservatively to decrease the volatility of your portfolio. However, many options could also amount to little more than gambling, significantly enhancing your overall portfolio risk. One simple example of these aggressive strategies is the sale of "uncovered" Brighthouse calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Brighthouse Financial stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Brighthouse Financial Option Chain
When Brighthouse Financial's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Brighthouse Financial stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying options that are ITM or OTM, the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
Brighthouse Financial's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Brighthouse. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Brighthouse. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Brighthouse Financial against a given expiration period. The table below combines all the option information in the form of a chain but before you use it, remember that it entails significant risk and it is not for everyone. | Open Int | Expiration | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | BHF Option Call 20-12-2024 50 | 53 | 2024-12-20 | 1.7 - 3.1 | 2.25 | In |
Call | BHF Option Call 20-12-2024 55 | 1229 | 2024-12-20 | 0.4 - 0.5 | 0.5 | Out |
Call | BHF Option Call 20-12-2024 60 | 1 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.3 | 0.6 | Out |
Put | BHF Option Put 20-12-2024 40 | 6 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 4.8 | 0.6 | Out |
Put | BHF Option Put 20-12-2024 45 | 104 | 2024-12-20 | 0.15 - 1.85 | 0.3 | Out |
Put | BHF Option Put 20-12-2024 50 | 62 | 2024-12-20 | 0.7 - 0.9 | 1.18 | Out |
Brighthouse Financial Market Cap Over Time
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Brighthouse Financial Corporate Management
| Allie Lin | Executive Counsel | Profile | |
| Janet Morgan | VP Treasurer | Profile | |
| Kristine Toscano | Chief Officer | Profile | |
| John CFA | Executive Officer | Profile | |
| David Rosenbaum | Executive Underwriting | Profile |
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Is Life & Health Insurance space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Brighthouse Financial. If investors know Brighthouse will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Brighthouse Financial listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth (0.64) | Earnings Share (20.13) | Revenue Per Share 77.866 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.726 | Return On Assets (0) |
The market value of Brighthouse Financial is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Brighthouse that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Brighthouse Financial's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Brighthouse Financial's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Brighthouse Financial's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Brighthouse Financial's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Brighthouse Financial's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Brighthouse Financial is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Brighthouse Financial's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.